br Pillar To Post... By Hix About the time Pillar to Post writes about the beautiful Indian Summer weather three days in advance of publication, the weather- man is preparing a surprise, and there’s likely to be snow on Thurs- If we don’t get some rain pretty soon, it’s going to be too dry in the woods for safe hunting. Pay a yard boy five dollars for raking the yard, and the wind changes during the night. Keep it up long enough, and the neigh- bor's leaves will add themselves to the humus hump. Bill Moss looked regretfully at the leaves the other day, the day he dropped around with a dozen brown eggs and started decant- ing apples from every pocket in his jacket. There was a time, said Bill, laying the last apple on the kitchen table, when he’d have been panting around with a wheelbarrow to swipe the leaves for his own humus hump, but these days he’s leav- ing the leaves lay. It’s a great institution, Ravens Inc. for quite some little time." : There was Pat Reynolds, with the mammoth head of cauliflower and the outsize tomatoes. > And that butcher at Gosart’s, who added a few more slices of The ravens have been busy boiled ham to the pound without seeming to do so. There’s a general feeling around the community that Hix should ; w be fed up a little, on account of she’s apt to fade away. FRA RA rf Hy = Folks seem to miss that 34 inch waistline, a waistline which made them very happy about their own measurements. The drawback to shucking off a considerable poundage practically over night is that none of your clothes fit. You take darts in a couple of skirts, and they still balloon out around the wingspread, though nipping the equator fairly snugly. ‘And if you take them in all the way down, you either can’t walk, or you run the risk of suddenly expanding again and having to do a lot of ripping. Either way, it’s a losing battle. Tighten all your suits, and you won’t have anything to wear, come Christmas. Tighten just a few, you can’t keep up with the cleaning. Investing in an entirely new wardrobe «way out of the difficulty. The classic shift sounds like a good idea, but you know what? It takes a figger to wear a shift. Also a figger to wear stretch pants . . . though you'd never know it when you take a comprehensive look around the super market. The only answer is that most houses can’t possibly have full length mirrors in them. Most of us, donning a shift, look just exactly like mealsacks tied in the middle, or worse still, not tied in the middle. Very few women can afford to wear either shifts or stretch pants, no matter how we kid ourselves. would be a delightful Se We just ain’t built thataway. Local Lifters Wanted urged for the 1963 Atlantic Coastal | Power-lift Championships and Mr. Atlantic Physique Contest at Kings AE << CE > - Lae Editorially Speaking: The late Howard Risley felt deeply about preserva- tion of the natural beauty of this area. He would have been in there fighting for no outdoor advertising along the new stretch of highway under construction between Luzerne and Dallas. Since his untimely death at Christmas-time, the Dallas Post has carried the torch for him in several edi- torials designed to awaken public support of a program sweeping billboards from the gorge dropping steeply to the Wyoming Valley from the Back Mountain, Fron Howard would have approved the action taken by the “Garden Club of Wyoming Valley: Whereas: One object of this club shall be to promote interest in civic betterment, and Whereas: The Luzerne County Planning Commission has issued a Proposed Zoning Ordinance which defines outdoor advertisement ag an advertise- ment used outdoors, including painted walls or rock face of a product or service unrelated to the use of the land or structure on which it is located but not including official notices or directional road signs of a governmental body, and Whereas: The new section of the highway, currently known as the Luzerne-Dallas Highway, is not already robbed of its scenic beauty by billboard and other forms of outdoor advertising, Therefore: Be It Resolved That: ; The Garden Club of Wyoming Valley go on record as whole-heartedly approving the efforts of all governing officials and other interested groups and individuals to preserve the scenic beauty along that highway and to prevent future encroachment of both advertising and undesir- able forms of construction through strict enforce- ment of existing laws and ordinances or the sub- sequent adoption and enforcement of recom- mended zoning procedure. : | some of the nation’s top weight- lifters, at both sessions, afternoon More Back Mountain entries are and evening, beginning at 12:30. 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